Thanks for the quick response! Chris Carlson iStor Networks, Inc.
-----Original Message----- From: Igor Pechtchanski [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 03, 2004 10:39 AM To: Chris Carlson Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Printing under Cygwin on W2K On Thu, 3 Jun 2004, Chris Carlson wrote: > According to the documentation, the following should print on the > default printer: > > bash$ cat myfile.txt > PRN > > What I find is that a new file is created named "PRN". Known problem. There's a patch pending for this -- once it's checked in, this functionality should be available again. Until then, use lpr from the cygutils package... > Also according to the documentation, cygwin understands the double-slash > form used in Windows. Thus the following should work: > > bash$ cat myfile.txt > //Dc1irv/laser1 > > This returns: > > bash: //Dc1irv/laser1: No such host or network path Nope, that shouldn't work. I don't think you can redirect output to a printer name even from the Windows console, much less from Cygwin. In any case, Cygwin doesn't treat printer shares as devices. > So, what is the proper method for printing under cygwin? Either "lpr" or, if you want to get fancier, "a2ps" or "enscript". Igor > BTW: uname -a returns: > > CYGWIN_NT-5.0 jackal 1.5.10(0.116/4/2) 2004-05-25 22:07 i686 unknown > unknown Cygwin > > Thanks in advance. > > Chris Carlson > iStor Networks, Inc. -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "I have since come to realize that being between your mentor and his route to the bathroom is a major career booster." -- Patrick Naughton -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
